10 McMansion Design Sins That Make Us Want to Throw Ourselves Off an Unnecessary Turret

The pre-recession, early 2000s were a remarkable time in American architecture. And by remarkable, we mean super-sized, shoddily crafted and utterly puzzling from a design perspective. With these behemoth homes officially on the outs, we decided to celebrate by rounding up the ten most prevalent and thoroughly perplexing McMansion offenses of all time. Read ’em and weep, guys.

Downright Enormous Roofs

Smorgasbord Window Situations

Even more striking than the diversity of window shapes found in your average McMansion is the seeming inability to stack or space them symmetrically. (Thirty eight different windows on a back facade is in fact too many, folks.)